Gold and Sullivan left their seats with five minutes of the game remaining, having spent around 10 minutes listening to fans furiously singing that they had "destroyed" the club.

Weak throughout the spine of the team, West Ham's cause was not helped in the 27th minute when Winston Reid was stretchered from the pitch with a knee injury that has since ruled him out of the rest of this season.

Nevertheless, Moyes tried to keep the conversation on the football: "I thought we did well first half - probably had two great chances to be in front at half-time - we should have been in front at half-time".

"What was going through my mind?"

Wood scored a third goal as West Ham imploded on and off the pitch, with the team three points above the relegation zone and no doubt facing serious repercussions from the game's authorities. However, both players are too inconsistent and will find life tough against one of the hardest working teams in the league. They just want to see their team win.

Burnley displayed a ruthless streak as the situation deteriorated around them and Dyche was impressed by his team's composure in utterly surreal circumstances.

"You don't want that to happen on the pitch, it creates problems and safety issues".